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[Wabonan]

Thats what I think also, Wolfhawk. I think there was a spy on the project. Thats how defence corps knew to buy the project right away. Someone tipped them off. I don't think its Phil. Phil is probably playing a game somewhere. I am starting to think Brackin was involved. Brackin lost all contact with his team. He only has 1 still valid e-mail account (Phil). Foo acts like hes been talking to them all. Also why haven't the Defence corps people shut down the project??? They gotta know someone is getting the signals. How do we know even if the signals are from the future that Foo and brother theo aren't paid actors, paid to tell the present day Foo and Theo lies. It would be easy for the present day defence corps to be getting the real feed and then pass along fake info from the future to Foo and Brother Theo. Thats why Phil is important. He works for defence corps
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[WolfHawk]

Hmm, I think I shook things up a bit. Sorry I didn't get this here sooner, but yesterday was a busy day at work. I decided to email Bracken, Foo, and Alex directly with my theory that the feed is not from the future but is in fact from the present time. Here are the responses:

[Wabonan]

Hey Wolfhawk, yea I would blackmail him. He sounds guilty already... I figured he was a bad egg.

[WolfHawk]

Ok, help me out. How should I phrase it?

I know we shouldn't ALL try to jump on him because he will get spooked, but we can work on the phrasing.

In the meantime I sent this:

[notgordian]

The problem I have with your theory is there doesn't seem to be a reason for Alex to fake transmissions from the future. Unless it's an elaborate plan to short-sell Defense-corp stock once the company goes public.

I do think there was a spy on the project and I do think it was Alex...I just don't believe in the logic behind it.

What we know: Alex slept through the broadcast despite usually being a "morning person". Alex was the one who "confirmed Brackin's untrustworthiness of Foo" (I think I posted that email somewhere here, let me know if I didn't and I'll get it up). We also know that Alex's dad is very very rich (able to have a private charter plane) and very well might be the private investor.

So the accusation could insinuate that Alex leaked the information to his father to organize a speedy Defense-Corp buyout?

[Arkaham]

While everything at the time seems to point in that direction, I really hope is not just a cheap frame to trick Foo and Brackin. That would be Lame, people do not change enought from twentysomething to fiftysomething as not to be recognized by themselves, and if Foo really didn't recognized himself, going nuts over the fact that he knew his name and nothing else is pretty dumb.

I do think is possible, and it wouldn't be inverosimil, but that would mean Brackin is nuts and Foo is an idiot, so the pillars of the story would crumble.


That said...


The trick to catch Alex would be indeed to bluff. Our choices are to do a small bluff and just tell him you now know what is really going on, hoping he puts himself in evidence trying to get out of a possible accusation; or do a huge Bluff, tell him you know how important is Foo (or Brackin) for the plan, and that you have evidence that will convince him or the farse.

I vote for the big one.

[Wabonan]

I dono what thread to put this in but My weird game talk message that I thought was a code .. got a responce....Ill put what I sent first. I posted it in another thread though..lol

[Arkaham]

And there goes our last bastions of sanity

Still, we have no hard evidence of Alex being a traitor. I don't say he's not one, but all we have is the word of Phill. Maybe he is the traitor and is trying to get away by accusing Alex.

And even if Alex locked Foo in the server, that doesn't mean he's a traitor, just that he locked Foo. Maybe he was messing with him, kids in college do that kind of stuff.

[angelvioletnightshade]

Info from Alex Wright:

[Jalathas]

I was away for a while, but from what I've seen in the two threads, this is the right side for me. Foo was a nutjob from the first time we met him, and now it looks like Brackin becomes a religious-minded fool in the future. I'm all for striking out on our own and solving this rationally.

[WolfHawk]

<meta> Hi everyone. I'm trying to catch up here. Some of you may have heard about the ice storms in the midwest usa - my house has been out of power since Thursday night. S'COLD!!! I'm checking this from work so hopefully I'll be able to join back in soon. <meta>

I did get a reply to my "placeholder" message:

[plikma]

Anyone else think the Foo/Brakin divide is turning into a pro-Foo/anti-Foo divide? Just wondering.

[Wang Guantao]

Actually I think it's been this way for a long time.
So I don't think you're seeing things plikma =)

[plikma]

A lot of people who think both Brackin and Foo are nuts are on the green side. I personally empathised with Beck's idea that Theophilus is talking a load of rubbish and that the Brotherhood is only really there to subvert Grey district's masses. However I always disliked Beck's trust in VNS and I think that the only real way to form a solution is to ally with Brackin. Am I talking rubbish? For various people - this is very TIAG and please don't use this from the interface, but I somehow trusted Beck more than Theophilus. However now that Beck is *gone* I'm willing to put my trust in Theophilus as the only method of coming to a sensible conclusion. There is something, however that seems rather iffy about him.

[Wang Guantao]